Posted by Deke on 01/19/06 15:45

"JimK" <1alpha@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:mmbvs1hj7u3q6sbo1769njd19e44itqe51@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:17:55 -0500, Larry LaMere <ljlamere@acd.net>
> wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:48:41 GMT, John <jlwsecure-usenet5@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> >
> >>Larry LaMere <ljlamere@acd.net> wrote in
> >>news:1tkss1tujdurmdbtoj3i420nl2ketnfbgn@4ax.com:
> >>
> >>> Hey again Deke, yup that was it. Evidently the old TV had the closed
> >>> captioning turned on. Now the only problem is a bright flash that
> >>> seems to occur randomly but more often with a movie that's in color.
> >>>
> >>> I'm going to hook up a different VCR to see if that's the problem.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Glad you got the major problem figured out. Too bad you had to go thru
the
> >> trouble of returning a (we know now) good recorder.
> >>
> >>The problem you are experiencing now is likely our good friend
Macrovision.
> >>It is a nice jamming system that will toss in just enough bad video to
make
> >>copying a tape useless. There are devices used to scrub the Macrovision
> >>signal, that can be found.
> >>
> >>
> >Any idea where"? My brother told me about something called a "dongle" but
I got no idea what that
> >is. And I only see him every year or so, and he has no phone.
> >
> ebay
> http://tinyurl.com/7o65y

Good item, I used one for several years. Has only composite video in/out.
I went with the Sima GoDVD unit this year because it has S-video in/out, and
seems to deal well with Macrovision II encoded DVDs. Do a google.
And if you now have a brand new TV, that pretty much eliminates the
possibility of the TV being at fault.
Deke

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